In addition, users submitting private data have to provide an expressed agreement that EBI Metagenomics can access their data for analysis, as described here. Otherwise, we will not be able to access their data. EBI Metagenomics will, of course, handle these data confidentially.

(2) Access to theENA submission pagerequires login in using a registered email address or a Webin identifier (Webin-XXXX).

Following completion of these two steps, and after data validation by ENA, we will be able to access the submitted data and they will be queued for analysis (more details here).

The length of time requires for analysis varies according to the number of projects in the queue, the nature and the number of runs in the submission however we aim to have most analysis completed in less than a week once validated by ENA.

(6) For private data, users will have to login on the EBI Metagenomics website to access their data until they become public

(7) Private data will become public after an intital confidential period of two years.
Submitters will receive an email from ENA prior to public release giving them the opportunity to extend the confidential period which is set to two years per default (as indicated at Can I change the release date of my project?).